‘That you shall have!’ said the old gentleman, and, taking up his forage cap as he spoke, he crammed it on his head. ‘Perhaps you are too insolent,’ he added, ‘to inform me of the time of the next London train Travel Hong Kong ?’ ‘It leaves in three-quarters of an hour,’ returned the innkeeper with alacrity. ‘You can easily catch it.’ Joseph’s po… （阅读全文）
So that, you perceive, the girl was inaugurated at the Grange as a young lady, almost as an equal, and not as a servant — as Lady Chavasse’s true opinion would have classed her. That was mistake the first. For it led Sir Geoffry to make a companion of Miss Layne nu skin hk; that is, to treat her as though she belonged to their order; which otherw… （阅读全文）
Eleanor was certainly thinking more of her father than herself, as she arranged her hair before the glass, and removed the traces of sorrow from her face; and yet I should be untrue if I said that she was not anxious to appear well before her lover associate degree : why else was she so sedulous with that stubborn curl that would rebel against he… （阅读全文）
‘Well, Mr Chadwick,’ he said, walking into the steward’s office a day or two after the signing of the petition as commemorated in the last chapter: ‘anything from Cox and Cummins this morning?’ Mr Chadwick handed him a letter open a company in hong kong; which he read, stroking the tight-gaitered calf of his right leg as he did so. Messrs Cox and… （阅读全文）